Match Report
Meppen, 8th with 58 points, sat 35 points above Carl Zeiss Jena (20th, 23). Recent form flatters Meppen's table spot — 1st league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 8th. Per game in the league, Carl Zeiss Jena were scoring 1.05 and conceding 2.24, Meppen 1.82 and 1.5, against a competition average of 1.5 goals per team per game.
5 meetings are on record — 1 won by Carl Zeiss Jena, 3 by Meppen, 1 drawn, at 2.8 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 40% of the wins in this fixture. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 80% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 60%.
The match was played at Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld in Jena (capacity 12,990). On the scoreboard, Meppen led 1-0 at the break; 1 second-half goal set the final 0-2.